Create a Tribal Spirit Drumming Event
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Over the past 25 years John Bowker has run thousands of Tribal Spirit Drumming events, bringing his unique musical style and infectious humour to people across Ireland, the UK and beyond.
If you are interested in hosting Tribal Spirit Drumming at your - music festival - organisation - school
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Some thoughts and comments from Event Organisers and Participants
"We were recommended to bring John Bowker of Tribal Spirit Drumming to the Isle of Man for a music festival I organise (Our Island: Our World). It proved to be the best tip off I've ever received! He was without doubt the hit of the festival, all his workshops were sold out and we got tremendous feedback from the participants. His enthusiasm was really infectious, and the same people came back time and time again, they were enjoying the sessions so much. We have already had many requests for him to return and I'm glad to say we are already in discussion for another visit very soon. I can thoroughly recommend John !"
David Maclean. Event Orgnaiser Our Island our World. Culture and Music Festival Isle of Man.
"Well done putting another great festival on with such success. From a purely personal perspective, I did the drumming workshop and John was absolutely excellent. He clearly has great skill and experience in running these workshops. I have taken a drum workshop elsewhere and it was boring compared with John’s. John really connected with people, imparted interesting asides, gave us a few different rhythms, but spiced it up with some singing and put it all together in a performance, giving a feeling of achievement and an endpoint. I was very impressed and would do workshops with him again."
Dr RG Selman, Ecosystem Policy Manager
Department of Environment, Food & Agriculture
"We were recommended to bring John Bowker of Tribal Spirit Drumming to the Isle of Man for a music festival I organise (Our Island: Our World). It proved to be the best tip off I've ever received! He was without doubt the hit of the festival, all his workshops were sold out and we got tremendous feedback from the participants. His enthusiasm was really infectious, and the same people came back time and time again, they were enjoying the sessions so much. We have already had many requests for him to return and I'm glad to say we are already in discussion for another visit very soon. I can thoroughly recommend John !"
David Maclean. Event Orgnaiser Our Island our World. Culture and Music Festival Isle of Man.
"Well done putting another great festival on with such success. From a purely personal perspective, I did the drumming workshop and John was absolutely excellent. He clearly has great skill and experience in running these workshops. I have taken a drum workshop elsewhere and it was boring compared with John’s. John really connected with people, imparted interesting asides, gave us a few different rhythms, but spiced it up with some singing and put it all together in a performance, giving a feeling of achievement and an endpoint. I was very impressed and would do workshops with him again."
Dr RG Selman, Ecosystem Policy Manager
Department of Environment, Food & Agriculture
Styles of Event
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- Corporate Team-Building
- Whole school and class events, bringing everyone to performance level over a short space of time and including audience particpation
- Celebration events for organisations
- Parties for adults and children
- Hen parties!
- Weddings, teaching the drumming and singing to the wedding guests who then performed it as part of the ceremony
- Art and Community Festivals, performance and workshops
- Camps such as Unicorn, UK and Earthsong, Ireland, often bringing several hundred particpants together for dance-drum sessions
- Men's and Women's Groups
- Women in Safe Housing
- Adults and children with special needs
- Arts students
- Young offenders
- Teachers, both for team-building and as a primer for bringing ethnic music into the classroom
- Funerals and grieving ceremonies, in churches and funeral homes
- Refugees, including an on-going project over many months at a refugee centre.
- Rites of Passage workshops
